Movie Review Thread

[Fragony]

Ok, now I know for sure, watched it again to make sure, 'Let the right one in' is an absolute masterpiece and my latest all time favorite. The girl playing the vampire is more than a little bit good, in the last scene she goes from feral rage to affection with just a look of her eyes, just as she was sad and scared, best developed character ever you feel so sorry for her, I absolutely love this movie.

still 11/10

[Scienter]

I saw Up in the Air yesterday. When I first saw the previews I thought was going to be a romantic comedy and didn't want to see it. But, after reading up on it, I realized it was anything but. George Clooney is a great actor and the plot isn't what I thought it was going to be. I hear rumors about it being an Oscar contender, and I don't know if it was good enough to warrant a best picture nomination, though I wouldn't be upset if Clooney got a nod for best actor.

[naut]

Ok, now I know for sure, watched it again to make sure, 'Let the right one in' is an absolute masterpiece and my latest all time favorite. The girl playing the vampire is more than a little bit good, in the last scene she goes from feral rage to affection with just a look of her eyes, just as she was sad and scared, best developed character ever you feel so sorry for her, I absolutely love this movie.

still 11/10

Oh wow. Astonishing. Astonishing. Words do not explain this movie. The ending, on the train. I was thinking, what she can't be on the train it's light outside, she'll die. But then the suitcase taps "kiss" in Morse code. And he taps back the same. Stunning.

[Fragony]

Oh wow. Astonishing. Astonishing. Words do not explain this movie.

Glad you liked it as much as I did. From the fury of the Norsemen please deliver us some more.

also watch 'Wrong in translation' and 'In the mood for love' if you like love story's done right.

[miotas]

I thought the movie was pretty good, I just couldn't stand the unnecessary violence, particularly the boxing scene. I know Holmes is supposed to be an accomplished boxer, but truly, how did that scene advance the plot in any way?

Yeah, and that scene where they start a fight in the house and end up destroying a dock and sinking a ship does not belong in a Sherlock Holmes story.

Also don't recall the American from A Scandal in Bohemia (can't remember her name) ever showing up in another Holmes tale, let alone being some sort of criminal mastermind thief (or Holmes's love life, for that matter).

Well apparently people have been writing fan fictions for Sherlock Holmes since early last century, but I don't think Holmes having a love life fits the story, even if Holmes did have feelings for a woman he would never let them show, he's too cold and logical for that.

From what I hear though, the unnecessary violence is really just the directors style, and so I'm hoping they can him for the almost certainly inevitable sequel .

Fingers crossed.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I saw A Matter of Loaf and Death the other day. It's the latest Wallace and Gromit short (though a good 35 minutes long) from Nick Park. It was a wonderful return to form after the disappointing full-length Curse of the Wererabbit. The sad thing is watching the "how it was made" feature on the DVD and seeing how old Nick Park looks these days. :(

[Snite]

Avatar



is a silly silly movie. Nothing made sense, even down to those spinny lizards. I liked the concept of the planet being one big nueral network that the natives could plug into - and with animals as well - but that was it. Everything else was.... silly.

[Fragony]

This one is for you Lemur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrcIyvW5Rk

No actual children were harmed.

[rajpoot]

Seconded on canning the director, since violence and loads of action does not make a good Sherlock Holmes movie.

I watched it today and maybe I'd just gone with the wrong mindset, expecting a true to the book movie for once....I had heard that this was more like an action flick...but come on, I mean anyone remember the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett? Those more or less stuck to the books and were pretty nice.

This movie was fine....I mean nice action flick and all, but it certainly did not seem like I was watching Sherlock Holmes....more like some standard modern day detective movie....

Jude Law was good as Watson though......better than RD Jr. was as Holmes.

[Strike For The South]

The Book of Eli

I need a machate, KFC wet naps, and an ol' beat up ipod.

9/10

[Kralizec]

Slumdog millionaire
8/10

[Major Robert Dump]

Bored in a motel I just watched Watchmen again, on one of the pay channels. It was the theatrical version. It didn't have the Death of Hollis Mason scene........it was in directors cut.....beautiful, bittersweet scene.....what do film editors think? How did cutting these 4 minutes make the movie better? I said in a previous thread it was my fave scene of the movie, seeing an old dog go down fighting, and I watch in in this motel and the film is butchered.....many other scenes gone, no wonder people didnt like....Here, Mason (night owl I) is mistaken for night owl 2 and some gang bangers go to kill him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeg78Yfp7g

Also, they cut a scene where the night owl II sees that the Knot Tie gang killed Mason and he beats the tar out of a Knot-Tie gang member and Rorschauch has to pull him off

[Scienter]

The Book of Eli

I need a machate, KFC wet naps, and an ol' beat up ipod.

9/10

I saw it last week and thought it was a fun movie. I was a little wary because the reviews on rottentomatoes were so poor. I wasn't expecting something intellectually profound, I just wanted to watch Denzel Washington kill people with a machete.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Saw 500 Days of Summer recently - an enjoyable movie, definitely not a standard rom-com chick flick.

Then I watched Transformers 2. And the whole thing can be summed up by a robot humping Megan Fox's leg; great special effect set pieces strung together with the flimsiest plot, terrible dialogue, and numerous stupid attempts at humor that failed to make me laugh once throughout the whole movie.

CR

[Fragony]

There, that's better. Finally done with The Killing, see it as a Danish 24, but it walks all over it much more focussed. Part family drama, part murder investigation, part political thriller, and it all comes together fantastically, every aspect of the story, every little sidetrack is interesting. This is how you make a great series, and I hear they are working on a follow-up which I cannot wait for. 1,5 to 3 hours isn't enough to really tell a story, but keeping a rather straightforward story interesting for 20 hours, with each episode being better then the last, is quite the achievement.

[Beirut]

Precious.

Read a review and had to see it. It was excellent but hard to watch at times. The story is about a (very) overweight girl living in the ghetto in Harlem who is physically and psychologically abused by her mother and sexually abused by her father. Its focus on her in school and how she finds a way to have a better life.

Top notch acting from start to finish and all very true to life. Not a happy movie but a very good one.

[Fragony]

Wow, now that is a good recommendation. 'Nobody loves me' it breaks your heart, poor thing.

Got one for you, very different but the same in a way. Be a good boy, run to the shop, bring a sleeping-bag in case it's closed, rob a granny if you are low on funds, and buy 'Let the right one in', watch it, and thank me for bringing it you your attention.

Oh wow. Astonishing. Astonishing. Words do not explain this movie. The ending, on the train. I was thinking, what she can't be on the train it's light outside, she'll die. But then the suitcase taps "kiss" in Morse code. And he taps back the same. Stunning.

^- second opinion from Psychonaut for urgency

[bobbin]

The Road

Ok but if I hear that kid shout "Papa!" one more time I'm going to burn to the ground eveything that existed ever.

6/10

[PanzerJaeger]

Precious.

Read a review and had to see it. It was excellent but hard to watch at times. The story is about a (very) overweight girl living in the ghetto in Harlem who is physically and psychologically abused by her mother and sexually abused by her father. Its focus on her in school and how she finds a way to have a better life.

Top notch acting from start to finish and all very true to life. Not a happy movie but a very good one.

Agreed. I particularly liked that it wasn't your typical "strong black character overcomes racist white society" movie.

The Blind Side... on the other hand... could not be more eloquently described than through the words of Peter Griffin - shallow and pedantic.

[Strike For The South]

The Blind Side... on the other hand... could not be more eloquently described than through the words of Peter Griffin - shallow and pedantic.

It seems like me and you are the only two people in the world who saw through that movie, Rich ol'Miss boosters take large black child in out of the goodness of there heart....lol.

Oher isn't nearly as stupid as they portray him.

The whole thing is a crock for the left coast to feel better about the south, buncha crap.

If people knew how SEC football worked, they would realize they Tuhoys were saving an investment.

[Fragony]

Irreversible. Tried again, turned it off again, I can't watch that. I am sure it is a good movie and every art-form needs it's extremes, but such ugliness makes me sick.

[Hooahguy]

Angels & Demons
i thought it was ok. since im not catholic i couldnt tell if any of that was true, but i did look into it afterwards and found it to be false.

[Prussian to the Iron]

The Wolfman

meh. there wasnt really a plot, but the gore was pretty cool. watching werewolves go on bloody rampages is always cool.

i found the leading actor to be sort of.....blank. he never expressed any sort of emotion other than sad it seemed, and he didnt seem like the character i wanted: a bad guy who just mauled random people as a werewolf throughout.
thats one thing about using actors: known actors its always "oh we've seen it before" and unknown actors its always a hit or miss. in this case it was a miss, though Hugo Weaving certainly impressed, as always.

[Centurion1]

Angels & Demons
i thought it was ok. since im not catholic i couldnt tell if any of that was true, but i did look into it afterwards and found it to be false.

Thank God, you checked.

[Beefy187]

Invictus 8/10

Watching the All Blacks perform Haka was probably the best part...
But all in all, the movie was fairly moving.

Only problem was the tempo of the movie, but I'll still give it a 8.

[Fragony]

L'empire des loups, way too many plot turns. First you think it's a supernatural thriller, than it's about the grey wolves (what cop has never heard of the grey wolves they aren't that mysterious), and than the lead actress who lost her memory turns out to be a Turkish terrorist deus ex machina with insane combat skills.

[Crazed Rabbit]

L'empire des loups, way too many plot turns. First

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you think it's a supernatural thriller, than it's about the grey wolves (what cop has never heard of the grey wolves they aren't that mysterious), and than the lead actress who lost her memory turns out to be a Turkish terrorist deus ex machina with insane combat skills.

Well thanks for giving away the whole plot Frag.

Recently I've seen The Hurt Locker, which was great, Serpico, which was also great, The Insider, yet another great film, and Charlie Wilson's War, which was quite good. The war scenes weren't that good, though luckily they were few in number. Charlie's first visit to the camp was much more effective at conveying emotion.

And finally, I also saw GI Joe Rise of Cobra. Good grief, awful. Barely better than transformers 2. Barely.

CR

[Fragony]

Well thanks for giving away the whole plot Frag.

Yeah right even if you wanted to see a French movie it wouldn't be released anywhere near your trailer. And if it would you would shoot it.

Anyway, 'They', one of the best horror-movies since, well a while. Some obvious love for Jacob's Ladder and Lovecraft.

[Scienter]

Up. The first 15 mins or so were surprisingly sad for a Pixar film, but overall I really enjoyed it. I think it had a good message to it as well. A friend at work said it was better than Ratatouille, but I've got to disagree, Ratatouille is still my all time favorite Pixar film.

[naut]

but I've got to disagree, Ratatouille is still my all time favorite Pixar film.

As a bit of a culinary enthusiast I enjoyed Ratatouille. Very cute.